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Definition: Suasion |
SuasionNoun1. The act of persuading (or attempting to persuade). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "suasion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Etymology: Suasion \Sua"sion\, noun. [Latin expression suasio, from suadere, suasum, to advise, persuade, from suadus persuading, persuasive; akin to suavis sweet: compare to Old French expression suasion. See Suave, and compare to Dissuade, Persuade.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: SuasionSynonym: persuasion (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Motive | Persuasibility, persuasibleness; attractability; impressibility, susceptibility; softness; persuasiveness, attractiveness; tantalization. influence, prompting, dictate, instance; impulse, impulsion; incitement, incitation; press, instigation; provocation; (excitation of feeling); inspiration; persuasion, suasion; encouragement, advocacy; exhortation; advice; solicitation; (request); lobbyism; pull. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Suasion |
| Specialty definitions using "suasion": Frog ♦ Weather. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "suasion": suave. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Discrimination | Swaziland | The law reportedly has been used on occasion to bring moral suasion to bear against employers. (references) |
Human Rights | Peru | However, the office has no enforcement mechanism other than moral suasion. (references) |
Madagascar | In 1994 the National Assembly assigned that role to the Office of the Mediator, which relies on moral suasion to correct abuses. (references) | |
Political Economy | PHILIPPINES | In response to public resistance to oil price increases, the government has sometimes stepped in to apply moral suasion on oil companies to limit, delay, or stagger fuel price adjustments, resulting in alleged cost under-recoveries. (references) |
Worker Rights | Philippines | In addition to fines, the Government also makes use of administrative procedures and moral suasion to encourage voluntary employer correction of violations. (references) |
Guatemala | The Human Rights Ombudsman's Office can investigate union complaints and issue a statement, but the office has no enforcement powers beyond attempting to resolve the situation through publicity and moral suasion. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane literature is in Homer's narrative of the war between them and the mice. Skeptical persons have doubted Homer's authorship of the work, but the learned, ingenious and industrious Dr. Schliemann has set the question forever at rest by uncovering the bones of the slain frogs. One of the forms of moral suasion by which Pharaoh was besought to favor the Israelities was a plague of frogs, but Pharaoh, who liked them fricasees, remarked, with truly oriental stoicism, that he could stand it as long as the frogs and the Jews could; so the programme was changed. The frog is a diligent songster, having a good voice but no ear. The libretto of his favorite opera, as written by Aristophanes, is brief, simple and effective -- "brekekex-koax"; the music is apparently by that eminent composer, Richard Wagner. Horses have a frog in each hoof -- a thoughtful provision of nature, enabling them to shine in a hurdle race. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Suasion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Suasion" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "suasion": moral suasion. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
suasion | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "suasion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | presion moral, bindje (amenability, assurance, assuredness, cogency, conformity, conviction, docility, expostulation, obedience, persuasion, politics, submission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضغط أخلاقي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | убеждаване (conviction, exhortation, persuasion, reassurance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přemlouvání (persuasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | geweldloze, zedelijke overreding (non-violent moral suasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pression morale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zureden (admonish, blandish, cajole, encourage, persuade, scold, to blandish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταπίεση (oppression), πείθω (convince, convince of, determine, persuade, persuasion, sway, talk into). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שכ וע (conviction, convincing, persuasion, suggestion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rábeszélés (cajolery, persuasion), meggyõzés (persuasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uasionsay persuasão (conviction, instillation, instilment, persuasion). (various references) уговаривание (coaxing). (various references) ubeđivanje (persuasion, pitch), nagovaranje (blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing, inveiglement, persuasion, spiel). (various references) persuasión (persuasion, persuasiveness). (various references) การชักจูง. (various references) tatlı dille kandırma, razı etme, ikna etme, gönlünü alma. (various references) умовляння (admonition, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing, exhortation, expostulation, reassurance, remonstrance). (various references) sự thuyết phục. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "suasion": suasions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "suasion": dissuasion, overpersuasion, persuasion. (additional references) | |
Words containing "suasion": dissuasions, overpersuasions, persuasions. (additional references) | |
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"Suasion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: causion, saision, sasanian, Saseno, Sasino, Sauzon, Spazio, suabian, Sumsion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "suasion" (pronounced swā"zhun) |
| 6 | s w ā" zh u n | persuasion. |
| 5 | -w ā" zh u n | equation. |
| 4 | -ā" zh u n | abrasion, evasion, invasion, occasion. |
| 3 | -zh u n | allusion, aspersion, aversion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, conversion, corrosion, decision, delusion, derision, diffusion, disillusion, dispersion, diversion, division, envision, erosion, excision, exclusion, excursion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, immersion, implosion, incision, inclusion, incursion, indecision, infusion, intrusion, inversion, lesion, misprision, occlusion, perversion, precision, preclusion, profusion, provision, recision, rescission, reversion, revision, seclusion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, supervision, television, transfusion, version, vision. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sanious. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-o-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: nisus, oasis, ossia, sains, sasin, sinus, unais. | |
-3 letters: ains, anis, anus, ions, naoi, naos, nous, onus, ossa, sain, sans, sins, sons, sous, suns, unai. | |
-4 letters: ain, ais, ani, ass, ins, ion, nos, nus, ons, sau, sin, sis, son, sos, sou, sun, uns. | |
-5 letters: ai, an, as, in, is, na, no, nu, on, os, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-o-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: suasions. | |
+2 letters: affusions, allusions, arsenious, avulsions, dinosaurs, sudations. | |
+3 letters: assumption, causations, coassuming, cousinages, custodians, dissuasion, granulosis, guanosines, gustations, insulators, isobutanes, outgassing, outpassing, persuasion, pulsations, rainspouts, sinusoidal, situations, sublations, substation, suctorians, summations, supinators, urokinases. | |
+4 letters: absolutions, abstentious, accusations, anisogamous, anxiousness, aponeurosis, assumptions, autonomists, decussation, dissuasions, exhaustions, furanosides, homoousians, housetrains, ignoramuses, immunoassay, infusorians, inosculates, insinuators, insulations, journalisms, journalists, lustrations, manumission, osculations, outclassing, outstations, persuasions, salutations, sanatoriums, sanguineous, sanitoriums, saturations, simulations, soundalikes, squamations, stramoniums, substations, supinations, suspiration, susurration, transfusion, ultrasonics, usurpations, utopianisms, variousness. | |
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